# Brit Dope Winter 2003 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981 "2003-10-01T21:07:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/341 "2003-10-23T13:34:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gyrate \* > \*\*Yeah, but I _hate_ walking on CXR-- after about the 200th clueless tourist bumps into me I start wishing I owned a machete. > > OTOH, if we let **Tir** walk in front, the pavements will be clear in no time. Especially if she starts showing people her monkey. \*\* My Monkey is a shy creature, not fit for the likes of common people. Besides, it’s been smashed… I have a machette though, and a couple of katanas, a bastard sword, an epee, a shinai, a war hammer and a bardiche, and I imagine I have some other sharp pointy stuff laying around somewhere plus a couple of bullwhips, a crossbow and the like, dunno what happened to my morningstar though, shame, that was my favorite. So, um, take yer pick! 😉 **Ianzin** I dreamt you were a cardinal… gonna wear your robes to the pub? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/342 "2003-10-23T13:38:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tir Tinuviel \* > **My Monkey is a shy creature, not fit for the likes of common people. Besides, it’s been smashed… > I have a machette though, and a couple of katanas, a bastard sword, an epee, a shinai, a war hammer and a bardiche, and I imagine I have some other sharp pointy stuff laying around somewhere plus a couple of bullwhips, a crossbow and the like, dunno what happened to my morningstar though, shame, that was my favorite. So, um, take yer pick! 😉** You can use my hair spike at a push. 🙂 > [@](#): > > \*\ ***Ianzin** I dreamt you were a cardinal… gonna wear your robes to the pub? > 😃 \*\* _ **Angua** sits at her desk, trying not to burst out laughing at this blatantly ridiculous image and failing miserably_ Damn you **Tir**! Damn you! I have _very_ strange images in my head now. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/343 "2003-10-23T15:36:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Angua \* > However, piss _me_ off, and I tend to _twist_ your ear instead. Its painful. 🙂 Yeah right Miss Nazbo Baggins. By the time you’d set up the stepladder so that you could reach i’d have gone. 😛 Now if you’d threatened to bite my knee caps i’d have been more worried… ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/344 "2003-10-23T15:41:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*Yeah right Miss Nazbo Baggins. By the time you’d set up the stepladder so that you could reach i’d have gone. 😛 > > Now if you’d threatened to bite my knee caps i’d have been more worried… \*\* **garius** , mate. I’m a woman. I can plant a knee with such malicious force, that I’ll be able to grab you’re ear fairly easily. Or, I’ll just fix you with my Granny Weatherwax stare, which will have you believing that I’m twisting your ear. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/345 "2003-10-23T15:56:42Z")
lightsabres ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/346 "2003-10-23T16:35:58Z")
That’s just boring. I could bring a laser from the department and burn your ear. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![confessorknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@confessorknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/confessorknight)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/347 "2003-10-23T20:12:04Z")
> [@](#): > > [FONT=century gothic]Originally posted by paulberserker[/FONT=century gothic] > yeah, because a 20 minute walk up one of londons busiest streets on a saturdays loads of fun confessor. half an hour at a bus stop waiting for the 29 is no picnic either at least we’ll keep warm. ---
**Author:** ![confessorknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@confessorknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/confessorknight)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/348 "2003-10-23T20:15:22Z")
BLAST!! A pox on you vBulletin. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/349 "2003-10-24T07:20:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > \*\*Given that I’ve just recieved my notice and will be made redundant about a week before the fest, I may not be able to afford to make it after all. \*\* Aw, you’ve got to come! You’re the only person in this thread I know! I’ll buy you a beer, and you can laugh at me trying to figure out the foreign currency! Last time I was in London, I accidentally gave a panhandler six pounds in loose change!\* And that was when I was _sober_! \*[sub]Stupid one pound coins. I’m not used to jingly currency that’s worth more’n twenty-five cents.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/350 "2003-10-24T07:24:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by confessorknight \* > \*\*half an hour at a bus stop waiting for the 29 is no picnic either at least we’ll keep warm. \*\* But that would involve walking, and _gasp_ the possibility of me getting completely lost. **ianzin** , at the Mini-LonDope, I seem to recall you doing a trick involving a Fresnel lens. Could you possibly please tell me where can I get hold of a few? I’ve volunteered to lead a residential school in December (hence the reason I’m going slightly mad!), and thought it might be a good icebreaker to get the students into optics. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/351 "2003-10-24T09:00:27Z")
lasers burn people? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/352 "2003-10-24T09:03:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by paulberserker \* > \*\*lasers burn people? \*\* If they’re sufficiently powerful. All a laser is is a (spatially and temporally) coherent (hah! best not bring one to the DopeFest then!) source of light radiation. So, a sufficiently powerful one may have effects similar to mild sunburn. However, even a weak laser will damage your eyesight, and a more powerful one will blind you. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/353 "2003-10-24T09:06:57Z")
Ooh… Lovely. Read just [what a poweful laser can do to your skin](http://www.laserfx.com/BasicSafety/BasicSafety2.html). Yuk. I think I’m going to go and throw up now. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/354 "2003-10-24T09:20:25Z")
there was an advert in last months **Viz** for laser eye surgery. but rather than correcting your eyesight, it turned your eyes into lasers. along the lines of: see your loved ones in a whole new way as they burst into flames before your very eyes! play CDs just by looking at them! etc. 😃 i’ll see if its on the website. it was too funny ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/355 "2003-10-24T09:24:54Z")
Fun Dopefest riddle: Q. What’s the difference between a laser and **Angua**? A laser is coherent. Just kidding you, dear **Angua** , just kidding. Yeah, I’ll send you details of the lens thing, but it ain’t cheap. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/356 "2003-10-24T09:30:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ianzin \* > \*\*Fun Dopefest riddle: > > Q. What’s the difference between a laser and **Angua**? > > A laser is coherent. > > Just kidding you, dear **Angua** , just kidding. \*\* _Shoots daggers at **ianzin** _ You’re in trouble now mate, fellow Lancastrian or not. 😛 > [@](#): > > \*\*Yeah, I’ll send you details of the lens thing, but it ain’t cheap. \*\* Thanks. I shall have a look and see if its within my budget. Mind you, that said, the place I’m working for have said that they will pay all expenses, so maybe I could class it as an expense. Plus they’re paying me really well as well. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/357 "2003-10-24T09:38:54Z")
And [here’s the thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=4147548#post4147548) , where I tell people exactly what I’ll be doing for this residential school. If anyone’s got any more ideas, feel free to add them in. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/358 "2003-10-24T10:27:07Z")
Traditional sign in optoelectronics lab: “Do not look into laser with remaining good eye”. (Rumour at the polytechnic I went to had it that some twit once _did_ look down the business end of one of their lasers … rumour further had it that the beam burned out the centre of his retina, leaving him with only peripheral vision in that eye. Weird. Absolutely do NOT try this at home.) ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/359 "2003-10-24T10:31:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Angua \* > **You’re in trouble now mate, fellow Lancastrian or not.** Gosh, I’m a-quakin’ in my boots! A threat from the venomous Fred Dibnah-rette knee-biting Hobbit from Planet Flashknickers! Oh, lordy, how _ever_ will I survive?! (Zzz _Snore_ zzz) ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/360 "2003-10-24T10:44:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ianzin \* > \*\*Gosh, I’m a-quakin’ in my boots! A threat from the venomous Fred Dibnah-rette knee-biting Hobbit from Planet Flashknickers! Oh, lordy, how _ever_ will I survive?! > > (Zzz _Snore_ zzz) \*\* Is that the best you can do? Seesh. 🙂 I have long nails. They scratch _very_ well. Actually, that’s probably a bad idea, you might like it. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981.md?page=19)